Our colleague Rob Cartolano of Columbia University was one of three featured speakers at an Internet Society discussion of "Digital Preservation: Business Models and Financial Incentives" on Monday evening, February 5, in New York City. The other two speakers were Vint Cerf, vice president and Chief Internet...

From Chip German: As an associate member of the UK/Ireland-based Digital Preservation Coalition, APTrust is invited from time to time to post to DPC's blog, linked to the DPC home page at http://dpconline.org. I chose as the subject for our post this time the draft...

In phone meetings the week of December 4, the Governing Board of APTrust heard recommendations from its community for new directions and new tasks for the organization in 2018.

The Board generally endorsed the list of recommended tasks, subject to continuing evaluation and refinement by the community and APTrust staff (in consultation with the Board when appropriate), while setting a...

Highlights of the Fall 2017 Meeting of the Academic Preservation Trust

From Wednesday, October 4, through Friday, October 6, forty-two collaborators renewed their conversation about common solutions to the challenges of preserving digital scholarly and cultural heritage material at the Fall 2017 meeting of the Academic Preservation Trust....

And now, for something completely different: often, the postings here reflect some administrative news related to APTrust, such as new pricing or formal announcements of other developments. What we don't do often enough is give you a glimpse (warts and all) of the work that our members and staff do together. Joe Carrano, who is a National Digital Stewardship Resident...